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The influence of COVID-19 on the availability and affordability of essential medicines: insights from Ghana’s national health insurance scheme (NHIS)

  • At: Seville (Spain) (2022)
  • Type: Poster
  • Poster code: SAP-035
  • By: MENSAH ANNAN, Ruby Aileen (National Health Insurance Authority, Ghana)
  • Co-author(s): Mrs Ruby Aileen Mensah Annan, Deputy Director, Strategic Health Purchasing (National Health Insurance Authority, Accra, Ghana)
    Dr. Augustina Koduah, School Of Pharmacy (School Of Pharmacy, University Of Ghana, Accra, Ghana)
    Dr. Daniel Ankrah, Director Of Pharmacy (Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana)
    Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye, Chief Executive (National Health Insurance Authority, Accra, Ghana)
    Mrs. Vivian Addo- Cobbiah, Deputy Chief Executive, Operations (National Health Insurance Authority, Accra, Ghana)
    Mrs. Yaa Pokuaa Baiden, Deputy Chief Executive, Administration/Human Resource (National Health Insurance Authority, Accra, Ghana)
    Dr. Francis Asenso-Boadi, Director, Strategic Health Purchasing (National Health Insurance Authority, Accra, Ghana)
  • Abstract:

    Background: The Covid-19 pandemic presented challenges to healthcare systems including alleged shortages and price hikes of medicines due to panic buying. The periodic medicine price surveys of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) of Ghana towards the review of prices on its reimbursable Medicines List (ML) provides useful information on ..

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